Word: pentagonals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson, head of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, told a Senate space subcommittee that ARPA is spending $1,000,000 on a wild-blue-yonder project designed to fly a 1,000-ton manned platform through space by baby A-bomb nuclear power. Not long ago, said he, the project was called "screwball"-but it "looks a little less screwball...
...Thomas S. Power told a House Appropriations subcommittee, "The force I am told by the Pentagon is programmed is not adequate. I want more, and I want it faster. I have so asked...
...story was bound to come out sooner or later. In fact, the U.S. was committed to release much of the information to the world at large as part of its International Geophysical Year program. But the Pentagon stubbornly sat on the data. Last week, convinced that a U.S. official was about to break the news and certain that Russia had already calculated the theoretical effects of such tests, Baldwin and Sullivan recommended publication to Managing Editor Turner Catledge. Before the presses rolled, they informed the Pentagon and the White House that the story...
...Unprepared Pentagon.Despite this tipoff, the Pentagon was totally unprepared when the Times hit the streets at 10 p.m. with accounts of Argus that slipped on a few details (e.g., the project's rockets used only solid fuel, not liquid and solid as reported). Uninformed public-information officers on duty at the Pentagon had nothing at all to tell the clamoring press. Characteristically, Murray Snyder, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (TIME, March 2), had warned a few top scientists to give only innocuous answers to newsmen. But the cry for information grew so loud that...
...TIME, which had the outline of the story last August from Pentagon Correspondent Edwin Rees...